[Yale-readings] September 29, 6 pm: Louise Glück and Henri Cole

[Kuhl, Nancy]

 Louise Glück and Henri Cole

Monday, September 29, 2008 6 p.m.
St. Anthony Hall, 483 College Street
Yale faculty and distinguished poets Louise Glück and Henri Cole will give a reading on Monday, September 29, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. in Saint Anthony Hall, 483 College Street. The event is sponsored by the Department of English and is free and open to the public.

Louise Glück, who has taught at Yale University since 2004, is one of the country's most widely admired and decorated poets. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she has won the Bollingen Prize, The William Carlos Williams Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Wallace Stevens Award. The author of eleven volumes of verse, she served as the United States Poet Laureate from 2003-2005 and has judged the Yale Series of Younger poets since 2003. Her work is stark, relentless, and powered by a voice wholly original and direct. Beginning with 1968's Firstborn, she has explored her continual concerns with the self, loss, desire and landscape: through flowers and the natural world (1992's Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Wild Iris), through Greek mythology (The Triumph of Achilles, Ararat, Meadowlands). Recent work, most notably 2005's Averno, has taken a new, meditative tone­a sign of Glück's continual artistic growth and exploration.

Henri Cole's eight volumes of poetry have earned him wide acclaim. Measured, spacious and quick-witted, his poetry is plain-spoken and ambitious, measuring the territory of the soul through direct observation of its natural surroundings. In "Gravity and Center," from his latest book Blackbird and Wolf, Cole explains "I don't want words to sever me from reality./ I don't want to need them. I want nothing/to reveal feeling but feeling," and the sentiment is emblematic of all his recent work: a fundamental belief in experience, a simultaneous distrust and love for language. His works include The Visible Man (2005), Middle Earth (2003), The Look of Things (1995), The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge (1989), and The Marble Queen (1986). A longtime educator as well as a poet, he has taught at Columbia, Harvard, Reed, Brandeis, and many other universities, and has won the Berlin Prize from the American Academy at Berlin, The Rome Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship.



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